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Summers Place Auctions’ combined Garden Statuary and Natural History Autumn sale took place in Billingshurst, West Sussex on Tuesday, 21st October 2014 and saw contemporary sculpture doing particularly well.

Among the more traditional lots, a rare Coadestone armorial for the Founders Company, stamped “Coade and Sealy, Lambeth, 1800” sold for £7,500. It was most probably removed from the facade of the Founders Hall in London, and we are pleased to announce that it has been bought by the Founders Company to return to their London hall.

The Vintage Magazine congratulates Ayesha Vardag and her team at Vardags for being awarded Law Firm of the Year (London) and any readers who would like to find out more about Britain’s top divorce lawyer can do so at our Business and Finance section under the sub heading of Legal Eagles.

The Vintage Magazine is very proud that one of our Business Members has won such a prestigious award.

What could be better than chartering a luxury yacht to take your family and/or friends on a cruise to some of the most beautiful places on earth, during which you will be looked after by a professional crew who will cater for your every need?

Gavin Gardiner Ltd’s first auction of 2013 of Fine Modern and Vintage Sporting Guns and Rifles saw a historically and internationally significant rare “Russian Purdey”, that was presented to British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan by Russian President Nikita Krushchev on the occasion of MacMillan’s Historic 1959 State Visit to Russia – one of the key points in the Cold War – sell for £21,600 to a collector, who was bidding on the telephone. The auction took place on Wednesday, April 17, 2013 at Sotheby’s, 34-35 New Bond Street, London. Remaining in a new unfired condition and with presentation inscription in a gold plaque, the 12-bore gun was made to Purdey specifications by the Tula State Armoury and carried an estimate of £20,000 and £30,000.

2012 was a good year for risk assets, all things considered, but what is in store for 2013?

The “Fiscal Cliff” was the most pressing issue facing the markets at year end and remains a key consideration in January. We do need to consider the implications of this “deal” before analysing potential market returns in the year ahead. Read more…

For selected weeks in March and April 2013, it will be possible to hire The Lodge in Verbier exclusively for stays of 3, 4 or 7 nights (normally only 7-nights’ exclusive hire is possible in the winter season).

The Lodge has nine bedrooms including two Master Suites, plus a specially designed bunkroom accommodating up to six children.Read more…

Aside from its blockbuster, coffer-filling exhibitions, the RA often offers little stocking-filler exhibitions – usually small, low-budget, bijou shows, drawn from their own collection.

Now that the surprisingly successful Bronzes exhibition has finished and before they open their next big blockbuster, Manet’sPortraits (26 January – 14 April), they have a charming, if slightly academic, exhibition in the opulently gilded John Madekski Rooms and two adjacent rooms. All the works come from the RA’s own collection, though they have never been shown together and many are little known.Read more…

The Vintage Magazine welcomes the distinguished explorer Colonel John Blashford-Snell as a regular contributor.

This is the first in a series of anecdotes and other stories from the career of one of Britain’s best loved explorers.

AUDIENCES WITH THE EMPEROR

by John Blashford-Snell

Thanks to my Godfather, who had entertained His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie during his exile in Britain following the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, I was privileged to meet the Emperor on a number of occasions.Read more…

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